Sweatpants and joggers are the same garment on this page. Jogger usually means a cuffed, tapered leg. Sweatpants is the broader term that also covers a straight or open hem. We make both, and the decisions further down are what separate them.
This is cut and sew, not print on demand. We hold no stock garments, so nothing is pulled off a shelf and decorated. Patterns are developed for your leg shape and rise, graded across your size range, then cut, stitched and finished by hand.
You do not need a tech pack to start. A sketch, a moodboard, a reference photo or a pair you already own is enough. We handle the pattern and fit development from there. If you are building a bottom to sit under a hoodie, read the section on matching below. It is the part most founders underestimate.
Sweatpants production at a glance
Standing terms, not a ballpark figure. Where a number is a range, it moves with your leg shape, your waistband build and the size run you need.
The quickest brief is a pair you already own plus the leg shape you are after.
Two decisions do most of the work: how heavy the fabric is, and how the inside face is finished. On a bottom, the first one matters more than it does on a top.
GSM is grams per square metre, the standard measure of how heavy a knitted fabric is. A hoodie hangs from the shoulders and forgives a lot. A leg hangs from the hip with a knee in the middle of it, so weight is what decides whether your pattern reads the way you drew it.
The failure modes are predictable. Light cloth on a wide-leg pattern collapses and clings instead of hanging. Heavy cloth above a rib cuff blouses more than most founders expect, and it bunches behind the knee when you sit down. Heavier fabric also uses more yarn and adds weight to your shipment, so it changes your quote. If you are unsure, send us a pair whose weight you like and we will match it.
Loopback and brushed fleece start life as the same knit. Fleece is terry that has been brushed; loopback is terry left exactly as it came off the machine. On a bottom, that one finishing step decides how the garment ages, because legs rub against each other in a way that a torso never does.
Still deciding? Ask for both finishes on your sample. Sampling comes before bulk on every order, so it is the right point to settle it.
Finishing
Embroidery, hardware, print placement and the stitching around them, photographed on finished pieces rather than mocked up on a blank.
Embroidery
Hardware
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Threads, trims and hardware are specified per order, not picked off a stock list.
Fabric is dyed in batches. Two rolls of the same cloth, dyed to the same recipe on different days, can come off the line fractionally apart in tone. Nobody notices that on a single garment. Put the joggers next to the hoodie in daylight and half a shade is the first thing anyone sees.
It gets harder when the two pieces are not the same cloth. A brushed-back hoodie and a loopback jogger take dye differently on an identical recipe, because the surface, the pile and the fibre content all change how light comes back off the fabric. A garment-dyed or washed finish adds another variable on top of that.
Making both together is the easier problem. Your colour is fixed to a Pantone reference at the start rather than described in words, so "washed black" or "off-white" means one specific thing to everyone handling the order. Fabric is custom-dyed or sourced to that reference. Both fabrics are then matched to the same reference and checked against each other before anything is cut. Fabric inspection is the first of our four quality control stages, and it happens before the cutting table rather than after it.
If the hoodie already exists, send us the actual garment rather than a photo. Screens render colour differently on every device, and a photograph of a black hoodie tells us almost nothing. With the physical piece in hand we can match to it and to a Pantone reference at the same time. Be straight with yourself about one thing though: a hoodie from an earlier run was dyed in a batch that no longer exists, so we match as closely as the fabric allows and you confirm the result on your sample before bulk begins. Lay the joggers on the hoodie in daylight, not under a lamp. That is the check we ask every client to make.
If you are building the top half too, see hoodie manufacturing. If you want the whole set quoted as one job, tracksuit manufacturing is the page for that.
A leg is a tube, and it is a tube that bends in the middle. Where the artwork sits changes both how it reads and how the garment has to be built, which is why placement is settled before cutting rather than added at the end.
Two constraints run underneath all of it. The first is that a finished leg is a closed tube, so flat processes such as screen print and DTF have to be planned around the sewing order rather than applied at the end. The second is grading. A graphic measured down from the waistband and the same graphic measured up from the hem land in different places once the pattern is graded across your size range, so we fix which reference point the placement is taken from and you see the result on your sample.
The methods are the same ones we run across every garment: embroidery, screen print, DTF, sublimation on polyester-rich fabric, chenille patches, and acid wash as a finish rather than a graphic. Custom labels, woven tags and custom trims sit alongside any of them.
Everything below is available on a sweatpants and specified at sampling, not added afterwards. What suits your artwork depends on the artwork, the cloth and where it sits.
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As seen on King Promise. Che Lingo, Blanco and Grace Ajilore have also been seen in NO FUGAZI, and the brand has appeared in NME, Teen Vogue, the Crunchyroll Anime Awards and Retail Jeweller.
A matched set is a real manufacturing job: one dye reference carried across two different fabrics, one grade logic across a top and a bottom. Yours starts with your leg shape, your rise, your GSM, your waistband build and your labels. Send what you have and we will quote it.
A drawing, a reference image, or a pair whose fit you want carried over. We will ask where the rise sits, how far the leg tapers, whether the hem is cuffed or open, how the waistband is built and what the pockets are, then price it. If the design is not finished our team handles the technical development.
With the quote agreed we cut a pattern: rise, seat, thigh, taper, inseam, leg opening, waistband depth and cuff. Bottoms grade on two axes rather than one, waist and length, so we confirm the inseam you want before the run instead of scaling it blindly with the waist and handing tall customers a short leg.
Nothing comes off a shelf. Cloth is knitted or sourced to the weight and composition you chose, and where a pair has to sit beside a top, both fabrics are pinned to a single Pantone reference. Elastic width, cords, eyelets, tips, pocket bag cloth and labels are all specified now, and artwork placement is set against the knee before cutting.
A pair arrives at your address before anything is committed to bulk. Sit down in them, squat in them, wash them, then check the inseam and whether the waistband has rolled. Try them on someone at the far end of your size range. Sampling is free for each design once you have committed to the bulk run; a standalone sample with no bulk commitment is charged. You get one free revision round, further rounds are chargeable, and changing your quote never is.
The sample you approved becomes the measurement standard for the run. Each pair is cut, stitched and finished by hand at our own dedicated facility, with waistband, cords, tips and labels applied to spec.
The cloth is inspected on arrival, the pairs are checked in line while they are being sewn, then again after production, and a final pre-shipment review happens before packing. Your order ships worldwide, the UK first, with deliveries to the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.
As seen in
As seen on
King Promise
Che Lingo
Blanco
Grace AjiloreSend a pair whose fit you want carried over, and the hoodie they have to sit beside if there is one. We will quote the leg shape, the rise and the waistband, get a physical pair to you, and cut the run only once you have signed it off.
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